and the University of Edinburgh have found that an animal's ability to endure an internal parasite strongly influences its reproductive success. Reported in the journal PLOS Biology the finding could provide the groundwork for boosting the resilience of humans and livestock to infection.
To measure individual differences in parasite tolerance the researchers used statistical methods that could be extended to studies of disease epidemiology in humans said senior author Andrea Graham an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
But biologists are just beginning to appreciate the evolutionary importance of this individual variation. For a long time people assumed that
More recently evolutionary biologists have come to realize that's not the case and so have developed statistical tools to measure variation among hosts in the fitness consequences of infection.
While the PLOS Biology findings provide strong evidence that natural selection favors infection tolerance they do raise questions such as how the tolerance is generated
The team of researchers used fundamental biological ecological and management principles to develop definitions for terminology commonly used to describe invasive species. Our definition of invasive is'a population exhibiting a net negative impact
and requires some understanding of the biology of these plants. Quinn said that ideally the definitions
which includes 49 questions that must be asked about a particular species based on its biology ecology
Appearing in the August 7th online edition of the journal Conservation Biology the paper says that
and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson who also led the new analysis . When he and his colleagues looked at brain gene activity in honey bees after they had faced down an intruder the team found that some metabolic genes were suppressed.
His team also presented its results this month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Portland Oregon.
which uses light as a tool to drive biological change. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Wisconsin-Madison.
and they are the prime focus of study for Onuchic and his colleagues at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP).
He said the membrane fusion mechanism is shared widely among many biological systems which makes influenza a good model for studying other diseases.
The study was conducted by Gene Towne research associate and the Konza Prairie Biological Station fire chief and Joseph Craine research assistant professor both in the Division of Biology.
The PLOS ONE study uses 20 years'worth of burning data collected at the university's Konza Prairie Biological Station.
Mammals and amphibians are particularly sensitive to the effects of high-intensity logging according to researchers in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 31 who conducted a meta-analysis of almost 50 previously published studies from around the world.
Biological sciences the study builds the evolutionary framework for future ecological and genetics research of insects Kawahara said.
Using next-generation sequencing a method used to rapidly process large amounts of DNA scientists developed an initial sample of 46 species that represent many of the most bio diverse groups of moths and butterflies.
Jacobs presented her research two weeks ago at the North america Congress for Conservation Biology in Missoula Mont.
but this species belonging to such a unique endemic island lineage is more special than that said Dr. Art Medeiros biologist with the U s. Geological Survey on Maui.
The patent-pending process was developed by NYU School of engineering Associate professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Jin Kim Montclare along with Richard Bonneau an associate professor in NYU's Department of biology and a member of the computer science faculty
Montclare and her colleagues devised a method of re-engineering phosphotriesterases by incorporating an artificial fluorinated amino acid and computational biology.
In a process that married computational biology and experimentation the collaborators used Rosetta computational modeling software to identify sequences in the fluorinated phosphotriesterase protein that could be modified to increase its stability
and the research team believes that its methodology--using computational biology to identify potentially beneficial modifications to proteins--could point the way to future breakthroughs in engineered proteins.
The findings published in the Journal of Experimental Biology indicate that pollen foraging behaviour involves learning and individual decision-making
and Life sciences with a joint appointment in the UA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
or through genetic modification techniques noted Wing who is also a member of the UA's BIO5 Institute and holds the Axa Endowed Chair of Genome Biology and Evolutionary Genomics at the International Rice Research
Maloof at the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology. The new genome information may help breeders produce tastier more stress-tolerant tomatoes.
In an ongoing research project behavioral biologists at Vetmeduni Vienna are investigating how blue tits in the Viennese Forests react to light pollution.
5th International Conference on Plant Cell wall Biology and published in the journal New Phytologist. Powdery mildew is a significant problem wherever barley is grown around the world says Dr Little.
Published in this month's Biology Letters Ungulate saliva inhibits a grass-endophyte mutualism shows that moose
or even fatal for grazing animals says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari
and you will pass this on to your grandchildren in the absence of any continued exposures says Michael Skinner WSU professor and founder of its Center for Reproductive Biology.
Recently published research led by Philip T. Starks a biologist at Tufts University's School of arts and Sciences is the first to show that worker bees dissipate excess heat within a hive in process similar to how humans
The study published in the journal Global Change Biology found that: In some areas of the Indian wheat belt growers have been bringing forward their growing season
Nowak associate research professor of Biological sciences at NAU and herpetologist at the Colorado Plateau Research Station has been studying the narrow-headed gartersnake
We found that some bees are working very very hard--as we would have expected said University of Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene E. Robinson who led the research.
which are produced through common biological reactions within the body and outside factors such as the sun pesticides and other pollutants Dalaly explained.
Woodrats that never ate the plants were able to do so after receiving fecal transplants with microbes from creosote-eaters University of Utah biologists found.
what biologists long have suspected: bacteria in the gut--and not just liver enzymes--are crucial in allowing herbivores to feed on toxic plants says biologist Kevin Kohl a postdoctoral researcher
and first author of the paper published online today in the journal Ecology Letters. The study of woodrats also known as packrats raises two concerns according to Kohl and the study's senior author Denise Dearing a professor and chair of biology:
The study of woodrats someday might impact farming practices in arid regions where toxic plants like creosote
human geneticist Robert Weiss biochemist James Cox and biologist Colin Dale. Evolving a Taste for Toxinsmany plants produce toxic chemicals
In the third experiment the biologists essentially sped up evolution by using fecal transplants to quickly change populations of microbes living in the woodrats'guts.
A new model developed by University of California Berkeley biologist Brent Mishler and his colleagues in Australia leverages this growing mass of data--much of it from newly digitized museum collections--to help pinpoint the best areas to set aside as preserves
and to help biologists understand the evolutionary history of life On earth. The model takes into account not only the number of species throughout an area--the standard measure of biodiversity--but also the variation among species and their geographic rarity or endemism.
which has no close relatives said Mishler a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology. We now have a more complex view of biodiversity that takes into account more than the number of species but also their rarity in the landscape and the rarity of close relatives.
He Bruce Baldwin and David Ackerly UC Berkeley professors of integrative biology earlier this year received a $391000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to apply CANAPE to the state's plant databases
and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson who performed the new analysis together with entomology graduate student Marsha Wheeler.
#Transplanting gene into injured hearts creates biological pacemakerscardiologists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have developed a minimally invasive gene transplant procedure that changes unspecialized heart cells into biological pacemaker cells
and in today's print edition of the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine is the result of a dozen years of research with the goal of developing biological treatments for patients with heart rhythm disorders who currently are treated with surgically implanted
We have been able for the first time to create a biological pacemaker using minimally invasive methods and to show that the biological pacemaker supports the demands of daily life said Eduardo Marbã¡
n MD Phd director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute who led the research team.
n on biological pacemaker research team said that in the future pacemaker cells also could help infants born with congenital heart block.
Originally we thought that biological pacemaker cells could be a temporary bridge therapy for patients who had an infection in the implanted pacemaker area Marbã¡
These results show us that with more research we might be able to develop a long-lasting biological treatment for patients.
#Transplanting gene into injured hearts creates biological pacemakerscardiologists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have developed a minimally invasive gene transplant procedure that changes unspecialized heart cells into biological pacemaker cells
and in today's print edition of the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine is the result of a dozen years of research with the goal of developing biological treatments for patients with heart rhythm disorders who currently are treated with surgically implanted
We have been able for the first time to create a biological pacemaker using minimally invasive methods and to show that the biological pacemaker supports the demands of daily life said Eduardo Marbã¡
n MD Phd director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute who led the research team.
n on biological pacemaker research team said that in the future pacemaker cells also could help infants born with congenital heart block.
Originally we thought that biological pacemaker cells could be a temporary bridge therapy for patients who had an infection in the implanted pacemaker area Marbã¡
These results show us that with more research we might be able to develop a long-lasting biological treatment for patients.
Fisher is the Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental sciences and a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui Phd assistant professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Biomedical sciences and Yosef Koronyo a research scientist were first authors of the original results that were published in a journal and presented
Reflecting Finland's bio-economic goals the development of this cover and its introduction into practical farming is one of the first concrete steps towards a society based on the bioeconomy.
We develop bio-economic solutions in collaboration with various enterprises. The innovations we develop will not be left collecting dust in cupboards.
High expectations in the industryfor the paper industry the bio-cover material opens up an interesting and new field of application that goes beyond traditional paper products.
and commercial horticulturist Esko Holma from Salo has participated in the development of several different bio-cover materials.
Bio-covers by contrast will be needed growing in importance as pesticides are being removed from the market he says.
and the situation appears likely to get even worse according to an analysis in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 10.
and other crops said Osman Radwan a U of I molecular biologist. If we look at diseases of soybean we find that soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is at the top
and M. phaseolina will help molecular biologists and breeders to design an effective method to control both diseases
and it is uncommon for a new one--especially a flowering plant--to be found in the United states says University of Utah biology professor Lynn Bohs senior author of a new study describing
and the United kingdom was published in the May issue of the journal Global Change Biology. The impacts of timber extraction burning and fragmentation have received little notice
The study published online on July 7 2014 in Current Biology is expected to contribute to the improvement of production of animals along with the deepening of our understanding on the evolution of eyes and photoreceptors.
which is what many biologists have been looking for over 100 years elaborates Professor Yoshimura. There have been many theories on the role of CSF-contacting neurons in response to light.
ndez Matã as Joan Real and Francesc Parã s from the Conservation Biology Group affiliated with the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Biodiversity Research Institute of UB (IRBIO.
A new methodology to study Bonelli's Eagle dietjoan Real head of the Conservation Biology Group of UB--a research group that has carried out studies on European Bonelli's Eagle populations for more than thirty years--explains that most Bonelli
The research developed by the Conservation Biology Group of UB suggests that in those territories where the most negative vital rates (productivity survival etc.
It's a communication strategy that's bold and risky yet remarkably successful in warding off competitors according to a paper published in the July 7 issue of the journal Current Biology.
and the possibility of lies explains James Nieh a professor of biology at UC San diego who oversaw the research study conducted in Brazil by Elinor Lichtenberg a Phd student in his laboratory who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Washington state University.
Their discovery should help biologists better understand how the steadily increasing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere (which last spring for the first time in recorded history remained above 400 parts per million) are affecting the ability of plants and economically important crops to deal with heat stress and drought.
through their stomataâ#explains Julian Schroeder a professor of biology who headed the research effort. â#oebecause elevated CO2 reduces the density of stomatal pores in leaves this is at first sight beneficial for plants as they would lose less water.
and shares many of the same genes as other plants and crops he and his team of biologists discovered that the proteins encoded by the four genes they discovered repress the development of stomata at elevated CO2 levels.
Using a combination of systems biology and bioinformatic techniques the scientists cleverly isolated proteins which when mutated abolished the plantâ##s ability to respond to CO2 stress.
by the continuing atmospheric CO2 rise are palpable these advances could become of interest to crop biologists
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Chase of the South dakota State university Veterinary and Biomedical sciences Department. It is an immune-suppressive disease he explains.
#A case study of manta rays and lagoonsdouglas Mccauley a new assistant professor in UC Santa barbara's Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology does fieldwork in one of the most isolated places in the world--Palmyra Atoll.
The researchers'findings appear in the journal Marine Biology. There is very little known scientifically about manta rays said Mccauley.
and gainingâ#UF biology professor Francis E. â#oejackâ#Putz said. Putz worked with UF biology professor Claudia Romero on the paper
which will appear in the July issue of Biotropica. Deforestation continues at a rapid pace in much of South america Southeast asia and the Congo Basin.
and published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters investigated whether early-life experiences can alter behavioural responses to a naturally painful event in adulthood--giving birth
This research was presented at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting 2014 held at Manchester University UK from the 1st--4th of July.
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The key seems to be how plant litter chemistry regulates the soil biological activity that facilitates the buildup composition and stability of carbon-trapping organic matter in soil.
and biological interactions that take place in the plant-soil interface shape plant communities. He is also the director of Clemson's Multi-User Analytical Laboratory
or each month and using biological control agents such as tiny parasitoid wasps. Genetic mutations are random
This rather changes our view of the biology of this nasty little bug says Paul Wigley of Institute for Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool an author on the study.
The potential consequences of warming in the Arctic include changes in freshwater runoff and atmospheric water vapor and decreases in salinity that can affect marine biology and seawater circulation dynamics.
The study was led by Professor Helen Griffiths Professor in Biomedical sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University in Birmingham UK.
This will help us explain the biological relevance of odors in even greater detail. The mapping of odor codes opens up new possibilities for biotechnology applications.
and tumor growth and embryonic growth and development has been a topic of interest to mathematicians and biologists for decades.
An important topic in ecology and evolutionary biology dispersal can either be directed random or. Random movement as the name indicates describes dispersal patterns that are unbiased
They say their research published in the journal Global Change Biology provides a valuable insight into how managing the interaction of different species could influence changes in animal distributions predicted under climate change.
Study co-author Dr Stephen Willis in Durham University's Department of Biological and Biomedical sciences said:
As the global climate warms many animals are moving to higher latitudes and altitudes where it is cooler.
Fellow study co-author Dr Philip Stephens also in Durham University's Department of Biological and Biomedical sciences added:
To address this problem especially as it pertains to cell wall biosynthesis a large team of JBEI researchers led by Joshua Heazlewood director of JBEI's Plant Systems Biology program has cloned
In plant biology Arabidopsis is the reference plant for species like poplar and rice the reference plant for grasses.
and beneficial for the survival of African elephants explained first author Robert Pringle a Princeton assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Ricardo Holdo a savanna ecologist and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri said that the researchers present enough data to potentially determine the amount of pastureland that wild Sodom-apple eaters would be able to keep free of
Pringle worked with Corina Tarnita a Princeton mathematical biologist and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology as well as with collaborators from the University of Wyoming the University of Florida the University of California-Davis the Mpala Center
LMU biologist Professor Susanne Renner and her research group have looked now at the effects of this warming trend on the timing of leaf emergence (leaf-out in a broad range of shrubs and trees.
and is being used to analyse how biological material reacts to heat and pressure. We're trying to find the optimum conditions for making charcoal from forestry waste.
and tars bio-oils) says Skreiberg. Skreiberg hopes that an industrial company such as Elkem which now uses imported charcoal will get involved
but we are still trailing behind the target of doubling the use of bio-energy.
The discovery at Tell Zeidan in Syria was made by an international team of archaeologists and biological anthropologists working at Cambridge (UK) The Cyprus Institute (Cyprus) and the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (USA.
#Testing biological treatment for pathogens that are killing honeybees and batsa researcher at Georgia State university is studying a new biological treatment for bacterial and fungal pathogens that are killing honeybees and bats in record numbers.
Dr. Christopher Cornelison a postdoctoral researcher is testing how effective Rhodococcus rhodochrous a species of bacteria is in fighting pathogens affecting honeybees and bats.
University biologist found a surprisingly wide span of as much as three months in leaf-out times.
#Evolutionary biology: Why cattle, pigs are even-toedduring evolutionary diversification of vertebrate limbs the number of toes in even-toed ungulates such as cattle
when their crops need the most water they can plant accordingly said Keith Ingram an associate scientist in UFÂ##s agricultural and biological engineering department part of the Institute of food and agricultural sciences.
and females respond differently to climate change and biological challenges. But more fundamentally just as people climb mountains in The himalayas
Lance Noll master's student in veterinary biomedical science Greensburg; T. G. Nagaraja university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology;
and Nagaraja worked with two Kansas State university molecular biologists: Xiaorong Shi research assistant of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology and Bai.
As a graduate student in veterinary biomedical sciences I am proud to be a member of a multidisciplinary team in the College of Veterinary medicine that aims to make beef a safe product for the consumers.
#Endangered species baby boom at zoothe Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute celebrated several births recently.
Three loggerhead shrike chicks hatched in Mid-may at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute In front Royal Va. Loggerhead shrikes also called butcher birds are songbirds that hunt small animals by impaling them on thorns or barbed wire.
and probably kill many other plant species so their use in large areas is not always practical said Thomas Mitchell associate professor of fungal biology
and has great potential as a biological control alternative. This type of approach using native pathogens to control noxious and invasive plants is gaining more much deserved recognition.
and mustard that are used as models for studying plant biology. OPT3 function in plants was previously unknown.
This along with its keystone ecological status and ability to adapt to marginal terrain make Eucalyptus an excellent focus for expanding our knowledge of the evolution and adaptive biology of perennial plants.
There are similarities between the biological pathways that underlie all of these conditions and there is some evidence to suggest that over-activation of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor axis which increases the availability of IGF1 in the blood may relate to a poor prognosis among breast cancer survivors.
Since carbohydrates stimulate the biological pathway that can increase concentrations of IGF1 the researchers focused on carbohydrate intake.
Christopher Henry a computational biologist at the University of Chicago who had a leading role in creating the database called Plantseed said it is an important step toward the engineering of improved crops such as creating rice that grows more efficiently
The team published articles presenting their findings in the journals Plant Biology and PLOS ONE.
and systemic factors play an important role in their function so it's important to unpick the multitude of biological factors that can affect their proliferation says Dr Pablo Roman-Garcia a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Our specific motivation is to learn where to best target agricultural efforts to slow global warming said Phil Robertson director of MSU's Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Program and senior
Jasmine Saros associate director of the Climate Change Institute at UMAINE and professor in UMAINE's School of Biology & Ecology;
Their study published in Global Change Biology was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council. Professor John Grace of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences who led the study said:
Genetic hierarchy in plant sperm cell formation undresseda team of biologists from the University of Leicester has solved a mystery surrounding how plants have sex.
and Andrew Richardson associate professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology along with colleagues from 7 different institutions found that forests throughout the eastern US are showing signs of spring growth earlier than ever
The big surprise of this work was the realization that the impact of organisms surpassed climate as a control of decomposition across spatial scales said Joshua King a biologist at UCF
and biology of fungi and termites is a key to understanding how the rate of decomposition will vary from place to place.
It also builds the most complete picture yet of sheep's complex biology. Further studies using this resource could reveal new insights to diseases that affect sheep.
and Biological sciences Research Council were part of a global team that has decoded the genome sequence--the entire genetic make-up--of domestic sheep for the first time.
Professor Julian Partridge from Bristol's School of Biological sciences and the School of Animal Biology at the University of Western australia with his Bristol-based colleagues investigated
Writtle College and several conservation organizations (the Society for Conservation Biology Royal Society for Protection of Birds Birdlife Europe Butterfly Conservation Europe and Friends of the Earth--Switzerland.
despite high levels of this castrating parasite said researcher Catherine Jones from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway.
Professor Mark Brown from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway added: While these findings show promising signs for bee populations in the UK we still don't know
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